Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by bai0 » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 4:34 AM UTC

heyitsguay wrote: post #18

I'd love to see a decentralized version of this - VR instances run on individual or group-owned servers that perform the bulk of the environmental simulation and rendering for clients, and have some sort of intercommunication protocol. Once we have high-res environments and fluid UIs to use them, I really want to create my own virtual space, share it, and experience others' spaces, I just don't necessarily want Faceb…

Have you checked out JanusVR? It's pretty much what you're describing. Its web client, native client, and server are all open source. Anyone can create worlds and host them like you would any other website, and links between sites are represented as portals.

For a sampling of some of the worlds people have built, check out https://vesta.janusvr.com/

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by codesushi42 » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 5:49 AM UTC

This looks like the new Google Lively.

And no one will use it.

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by heyitsguay » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 6:55 AM UTC

bai0 wrote: post #21

heyitsguay wrote: post #18

I'd love to see a decentralized version of this - VR instances run on individual or group-owned servers that perform the bulk of the environmental simulation and rendering for clients, and have some sort of intercommunication protocol. Once we have high-res environments and fluid UIs to use them, I really want to create my own virtual space, share it, and experience others' spaces, I just don't necessarily want Faceb…

Have you checked out JanusVR? It's pretty much what you're describing. Its web client, native client, and server are all open source. Anyone can create worlds and host them like you would any other website, and links between sites are represented as portals. For a sampling of some of the worlds people have built, check out https://vesta.janusvr.com/

Interesting, thanks for sharing! So what are the features a big company like Facebook can offer over e.g. JanusVR? Asset generation? Network effects? Does JanusVR have anything like a killer app?

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by jillesvangurp » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 7:00 AM UTC

MR4D wrote: post #19

So, Facebook finally read “Snow Crash”, I see. The Black Sun comes to life!

That book also featured crypto-currencies which is of course another thing Facebook is dabbling with. And it had a plot that featured vastly diminished US government marginalized by commercial burbclaves and other corporate entities, which seems to be exactly why governments are anxious to block Libra and worried about companies like FB having valuations exceeding the GDP of most countries.

I recently re-read Snow Crash. I love that book. A lot of that stuff looks a lot less like science fiction these days.

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by Jyaif » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 7:17 AM UTC

MR4D wrote: post #19

So, Facebook finally read “Snow Crash”, I see. The Black Sun comes to life!

Oculus' goal has been to build a metaverse pretty much from the start: https://www.oculus.com/blog/onward-to-the-metaverse/

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by avaer » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 7:38 AM UTC

heyitsguay wrote: post #18

I'd love to see a decentralized version of this - VR instances run on individual or group-owned servers that perform the bulk of the environmental simulation and rendering for clients, and have some sort of intercommunication protocol. Once we have high-res environments and fluid UIs to use them, I really want to create my own virtual space, share it, and experience others' spaces, I just don't necessarily want Faceb…

You might be interested in a talk I did on this last weekend: https://youtu.be/MOf7mDQ2xfU

TLDW: - transclude WebVR worlds with URLs - delegate authority recursively - pay for things with e.g. Github Sponsors - enforce licenses, allow remixing - tech demo

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by jobigoud » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 7:51 AM UTC

mindgam3 wrote: post #11

"Because everyone is going to be able to create their own... spaces... Horizon is going to have this property where it grows and expands and gets better and better over time." - Zuckerberg keynote (1) In related news, a high-ranking Facebook exec revealed that Zuckerberg had been planning to name this massively multiplayer online experience "Myspace". After heated internal discussions, Horizon was chosen as the brand…

Haven't watched the keynote yet, is this a renaming or expansion of Facebook spaces (already a VR world where you connect with your friends) ? Or is it something new entirely? And do you need a fb account to go to Horizon?

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by dblank9 » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 8:12 AM UTC

Ah crap, I wanted to build something like that. Oh well...

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by gremlinsinc » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 8:18 AM UTC

So, is this the REAL reason for Libra coin?

Create a virtual world that completely mirrors the real world, and that world will need currency and economics at scale too, why not use an alt coin as it's base?

Re: Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world

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Post by xaedes » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 8:27 AM UTC

gremlinsinc wrote: post #29

So, is this the REAL reason for Libra coin? Create a virtual world that completely mirrors the real world, and that world will need currency and economics at scale too, why not use an alt coin as it's base?

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